{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1963-10-02","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2010-06-16","city":"ANCHORAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"51622","engine_horsepower":1200,"engine_maker":"P & W","engine_model":"R-1830-90D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3021455","mode_s_code":"51260300","mode_s_hex":"A560C0","model":"DC3C","n_number":"N44587","name":"DESERT AIR TRANSPORT INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N44587 is a Douglas DC3C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 32 seats. It is registered to Desert Air Transport INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2010 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 2, 1963.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Desert Air Transport INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 16, 2010, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 2, 1963, 19 years after the 1944 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 12857 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N44587 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N44587. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":32,"serial_number":"12857","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4001 OLD INTL AIRPORT RD STE 9","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00532544","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N44587","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1944,"zip":"995020918"}